The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of each month at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.

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Guest poet:

Guest poets for Sunday 27 June 2010 - Chafic Ataya and Ghostboy

Chafic Ataya was born in Mount Lebanon in 1939. Despite struggle through continual wars and poverty he has compiled four books of poetry published in English, The Earth Woman, Blades of Time, Tears in Wine and Empty Shell. He is a poet whose basic belief confirms the living organic aspect of the Universe and that Man himself is no less than an ever-living being.
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‘Ghost boy’ Stavanger [QLD]
Ghostboy won the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup (2005), establishing him as one of Australia’s most innovative performance poets. He has been QLD’s “slammaster” since 2005 including coordinating the QLD leg of the Australian Poetry Slam (2006-2009) and creating the WordFood slam/spoken word showcase held at the Woodford Folk Festival. A live hybrid of performance poetry, spoken weird theatre, & surrealist soundscapes Ghostboy has been a feature at many major festivals. He has been published in The Courier Mail, fourWtwenty, Going Down Swinging, Famous Reporter and The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux (USA, 2nd Ed) as well as performing live on ABC & Triple J radio. His first book & CD Station to Station was released in 2006. The lastest book And the Ringmaster Said... was released through Small Change Press (2008), the independent South-East QLD imprint he co-started in 2006.
www.myspace.com/holyghostboy
www.myspace.com/ghostboywithgoldenvirtues
www.ghostboy.net



Entry: Free entry. Open Mic included.

UPDATE
Brook Emery is not the reader for June. He read in May and no-one should double-dip.